I have an Alix 2c1 running m0n0wall in a production environment and I have
seen it reboot on me a few times, although it doesn't in my case correlate
with logging into the web interface.
I am outputting my logs to a syslog server behind the router and have seen
the unit reboot almost as if it had had the power removed and replaced.
Unfortunately, no suspicious messages are contained in the logs, and while
it happened three or so times over the course of two days, it hasn't
happened in about a week.
These events and your e-mail lead me to believe that there is an underlying
problem of sorts with these pieces of hardware and the current beta release
of m0n0wall (using b10, I know b11 was released yesterday).
It's not effecting me badly enough to warrant removal of the device, but it
definitely raises some eyebrows.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd D. Volz" <todd at stir dot org>
To: "m0n0wall" <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Help with Alix monowall reboots
>
> ----- "Todd D. Volz" wrote:
>> I have an Alix 2c1 (3/1/128/LX700) (0.99B firmware) board running
>> m0n0wall 1.3b10 and it is rebooting.
>> The system doesn't actually reboot on it's own, it is triggered by
>> logging into the web interface, after the authentication is passed, the
>> web browser does not show the web interface it just hangs, the firewall
>> stops responding to pings. When ping responses return, I retry access to
>> the web interface and see that the uptime is 0:00.
>> When the system has been up for a few days (1 - 5) I notice that some
>> systems on my network aren't able to reach the Internet anymore so I try
>> to access the web interface to see if there are any problems, and get the
>> above symptoms/results.
>> I have tried the same config on two separate boards running the same
>> version of m0n0wall with both having the same problem.
>> My last reload was this morning at 7:34 AM (per uptime and internal logs
>> on router)
>> I have captured the syslog logs, however they don't appear to be very
>> helpful (You can look at those at
>> http://maya.stir.org/smokey-200804-07.log )
>> I have captured the on device logs from the system log tab
>> (http://maya.stir.org/smokey-200804-07-ondevice.log )
>> I have also captured and sanitized (I hope not making it too unreadable)
>> the status.php (http://maya.stir.org/smokey-200804-status.html)
>> I have a total of 5 pcs and 10 - 15 other devices that may access the
>> Internet.
>> I use one machine to pull SNMP network statistics from devices outside
>> the firewall (approx. 200 devices) and also use that same machine as a
>> public DNS server, so it gets and makes quite a few connections.
>> WAN interface has a static public IP address. (I also have a second
>> public IP that I use via proxy arp)
>> LAN I do not run a DHCP server from monowall (provided by an internal
>> server)
>> Opt 1 runs a DHCP server for a Wireless network
>> Opt 2 is the same network as WAN, however has a different IP address (you
>> will notice messages in the logs stating that ARP requests are comming
>> back from the wrong interfaces). I do this as I need the public network
>> to perform the SNMP monitoring.
>> IPSEC1 is disabled.
>> The second IPSEC tunnel is to a m0n0 pc running 1.22
>> The third IPSEC tunnel is to an m0n0 running on an Alix 2c1 version
>> 1.3b10
>> Any ideas on why this box is rebooting?
>> If there is any more information that would be helpful let me know and I
>> will provide what I can.
>> Thanks for any help.
>> Todd
>
>
> Does anyone have experience with this Alix 2c1 running reliably?
> What are the features of monowall that you use with the Alix 2c1? (VLAN,
> IPSEC, 1:1 NAT, proxy arp, etc)
>
> Is there a way to turn logging on on the console connection so that I
> might be able to capture any errors before it reboots?
>
> Thanks
> Todd
>